Chapter 55

MAY PAKIRAMDAM si Helaena na inaasahan ni David na makikilala o maaalala niya ang pangalang binanggit nito. Tulad din ng banggitin nito ang pangalan ng

huling tumawag.

"Should I know this Nicole Bartolome?"

"Kilala mo siya. She had been my father's kasosyo when we first met. A couple of years older than you."

Something flickered in her eyes. Not recognition, but something akin to jealousy. Sa tinig ni David ay parang may kinalaman sa buhay nito ang pangalang binanggit.

Tumayo siya. Self-consciously, itinapi sa katawan ang kumot. But not before David took a glimpse of his wife's nudity.

Hindi kataasan si Helaena. But she was slim. Not modelslim though. But with curves at the right places. She was forty-three now but she still had the body of a goddess. The ugly scar on her arm and the one that was so prominent on her leg didn't even mar her beauty.

Ipaaalala niya sa sariling aalukin niya ang asawa kung gugustuhin nitong ipa-plastic surgery ang malaki at malalim na Pilat sa braso at bin